Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Dispersion for me is an Epic fail talent. If i had the choice 5% from ve and chain mana pot any day over this lame talent.Worst part is your gonna need to keep your gonan need to add this shit talent into the rotation to make sure you keep 100% uptime on dots as you are unable to cast while in dispertion

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

its propably very situational pve talent since personal regen will be much better in wotlk. but for pvp this thing is kind a sweet and needed there.
thing im worried looks like shadowpriest is now second grade manabattery when ou compare it to surv hunters that give you % of your total manapool. Spell mana costs have been scaled up more than the effects (unless they rework spell-coeffincy) adding VT nerf to that making VT a bit weak. tho its hard to say anything about raid dmg yet seeing tier 1 bosses got more than 13000000 health so its very possible they change the way spells scale with spellpower.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Dispersion for pvp... it's solid. From a pve standpoint... it's not terrible, but it should be better. From what I've read, chain potting is gone, and VT nerfed a long time ago to 2%. However, we also get 5% more dmg from disc tier one talent, only casting sw ONCE per fight, and getting huge buffs to spirit (spirit tap and twisted faith). Our mana battery is being nerfed, but our actual dmg is being buffed a TON. Stop whining about priest talents imo, its probably the most balanced set of talents compared to the other classes.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Originally Posted by Amgyn

Penance is 184 every second for 3 seconds, affected by full spellpower and talents.. its not bad, especially becase it can heal too.

Compare it to Mind Flay at level 80, which is 230 damage per second for 3 seconds. Albeit, the mana cost is... significantly... less. Assuming the mana cost is reworked a little bit, or the damage is scaled up to be more in line with the mana cost, this might give a little more stability to a holy smite build than is currently offered by the surge of light-dependant hybrid holy build Smite DPSers use nowadays.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Disperion is one hell of a talent. For 6 seconds you only take 10% of the damage dealt to you and you gain 6% of your health and mana every 1 second. Anyone crying that is isn't good, doesn't know what's good for a Shadowpriest. For PVP that is. Then again, why not for PVE: A 100k hit will only deal 10k damage, meaning you can survive any attack of any raidboss in the game.

You practically become a Rogue using Cloak of Shadows. I don't understand the QQ. Most Shadowpriests I see whine that they don't have something to survive/lose aggro like Mages with Ice Block or Hunters with Feign Death. Now you finally have something.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Originally Posted by Statix

Disperion is one hell of a talent. For 6 seconds you only take 10% of the damage dealt to you and you gain 6% of your health and mana every 1 second. Anyone crying that is isn't good, doesn't know what's good for a Shadowpriest. For PVP that is. Then again, why not for PVE: A 100k hit will only deal 10k damage, meaning you can survive any attack of any raidboss in the game.

You practically become a Rogue using Cloak of Shadows. I don't understand the QQ. Most Shadowpriests I see whine that they don't have something to survive/lose aggro like Mages with Ice Block or Hunters with Feign Death. Now you finally have something.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Originally Posted by Statix

Disperion is one hell of a talent. For 6 seconds you only take 10% of the damage dealt to you and you gain 6% of your health and mana every 1 second. Anyone crying that is isn't good, doesn't know what's good for a Shadowpriest. For PVP that is. Then again, why not for PVE: A 100k hit will only deal 10k damage, meaning you can survive any attack of any raidboss in the game.

You practically become a Rogue using Cloak of Shadows.

Note: while under the effect of Disperion (or whatever), you are unable to attack or cast spells. Just so you know that.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Anyone crying that is isn't good, doesn't know what's good for a Shadowpriest. For PVP that is.

PVP yeh, i raid.

Originally Posted by Statix

Then again, why not for PVE: A 100k hit will only deal 10k damage, meaning you can survive any attack of any raidboss in the game.

because if i'm doing my job i shouldn't take any direct hits like that in a raid.

Originally Posted by Statix

You practically become a Rogue using Cloak of Shadows. I don't understand the QQ. Most Shadowpriests I see whine that they don't have something to survive/lose aggro like Mages with Ice Block or Hunters with Feign Death. Now you finally have something.

nah, aggro isnt/wont be a problem endgame raiding (tbc or wotlk)

Originally Posted by dominara

Anyone who thinks that Dispersion is a bad talent hasn't done any kind of decent raiding.
Yeah I'm sure you have no use for it wiping on Heroics.

don't wipe on heroics.

Originally Posted by dominara

In T6 onwards certain bosses deal alot of damage to you. Popping Dispersion when you wander into Doomfire(a.), get targeted by Dark Barrage or one of the many other high damage abilities that get thrown at you is really going to help the raid. Personally I have low health due to bad luck with drops(b.), this is just what I need to keep that PvP Stamina gear in my bags where it belongs.
For all other times you regen a big amount of mana. Do you seriously want to farm massive amounts of mana potions instead of having a regen talent like this!?(c.) You don't raid obviously(d.), you can't even use Shadowfiend on a fair few fights.

And then as an added bonus this makes your PvE spec a little better for PvP.(e.)

It's Iceblock + Innervate!

Okay.. a few things:

(a.) you shouldn't be walking into doomfire in the first place; raid encounters arent designed so that you will require dispersion so why do we need it? for moments that we fuck up? we shouldn't be fucking up in the first place.(b.) okay, how do you have any say then; you clearly do not have the best raiding gear.(c.) yes i would rather chug mana pots than have this 51 pointer(d.) yes i raid SWP(e.) trying to spec for both pve and pvp is simply fail, not a valid point and if you're saying dispersion is a pvp talent i would tend to agree.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Okay.. a few things:

- yes i raid SWP.
- yes i would rather chug mana pots than have this 51 pointer
- you shouldn't be walking into doomfire in the first place; raid encounters arent designed so that you will require dispersion so why do we need it? for moments that we fuck up? we shouldn't be fucking up in the first place.
- about the pvp spec thing; trying to spec for both pve and pvp is simply fail, not a valid point and /care for pvp when i'm raiding.

On fights like Mother (Fatal attraction), Council (Deadly poison and bound to take a tick from some AoE), Illidan(dark barrage) its a great talent where you are bound to take some damage and you could possibly die. The fact that we cant use spells while dispersing isnt exciting but there are times when you need to regen mana on the move while pots are down (Archimonde etc). Its a pretty decent talent but id expect to see a few changes to it before WotLK

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

Originally Posted by Zinge

On fights like Mother (Fatal attraction), Council (Deadly poison and bound to take a tick from some AoE), Illidan(dark barrage) its a great talent where you are bound to take some damage and you could possibly die. The fact that we cant use spells while dispersing isnt exciting but there are times when you need to regen mana on the move while pots are down (Archimonde etc). Its a pretty decent talent but id expect to see a few changes to it before WotLK

Okay, my guild farms BT and Hyjal with no unavoidable deaths because our healers know what they're doing; your point is still just saying dispersion is for oshit moments.

I guess blizzard assume we will fuck up a lot so took some of the skill away from us here?

Bottom line is it's a boring needless talent that will benefit casual/ less skilled raiders or people who cba to grind pots. THAT BEING SAID; with the current pot nerf perhaps i was too harsh on dispersion. BUT STILL, not allowing us to take more than 1 pot per combat was a stupid idea, and giving us this to compensate is a hell of a shit fix. It's like making all raid bosses arcane immune then giving mages a 51 pointer that reads ''your spells ignore all arcane resistances and immunity''.

Re: Penance and Dispersion...suck?

THis talent is far from decent. My guild just finished bt and soon to start sunwell and all i can say is people that give stupid examples like dark barage my healers have no problem healing through it and prob end phase 2 with 90%+ mana so no really biggie for them. This talent stinks and i would chain chug any day over this talent.